بط

بَطٌّ بط A kind of water-fowl; (S, O, Msb;) [the duck, or ducks; and the goose, or geese; but generally the former of these birds; agreeably with a statement in the Jm, that بَطٌّ is applied by the Arabs to the small, and اـِوَزٌّ to the large; ] i. q. اـِوَزٌّ, (K, TA,) both the small thereof and the large: (TA:) a Persian word (عَجَمِىٌّ), arabicized; [originally بَتْ, or بَطْ, or بَطّ;] or, accord. to IJ, an imitation of its cries: n. un. بَطَّةٌ, (S, Msb, K,) which is applied to the male and to the female, (S, Msb,) like حَمَامَةٌ and دَجَاجَةٌ: (S:) pl. بِطَاطٌ. (TA.)